InDesign CS1 Unexpectedly quitting with Network Home Folders

Hi
We have a Mac OSX 10.4 Server installation running on a G5 XServe with 5 Mac Users running Network Home Folders as well as other services. When the Mac users are working off the server with their files, InDesign unexpextedly quits or when they try to save their work back to the server it reports that they don't have access gto the sharepoint to save their files.
Any ideas?
Paul

Paul,
We have had similar problems with CS1 and CS2, the only fix i have found is when the user cannot save, is to use the connect to server dialogue and to reconnect to the share point that way, in most cases the user can save after doing this. I have also seen this when the user is close to their disk quotas limit (some adobe programs need something like 2/12 times the file size to be able to save properly). For some reason it seems that CS will regularly lose its connection to the server, and i checked the Adobe site once and i am sure it said it was not supported in a network environment. It is certainly the worst program we have for problems since i have set up network home folders for students, second is Microsoft Orifice which also does the same thing.
Hope this is some help, its been driving me and the students mad for the last year.
Good luck,
Kevin.

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